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Steve Gunderson: Be patient for results after voting Nov. 5
Everything points to a process that seeks to determine who legally wins. But this will take time.

John Nichols: Eric Hovde just isn’t that into rural Wisconsin
As the Wisconsin race enters its final two weeks, Hovde has stumbled badly on an issue that matters more in Wisconsin than most states: farm policy.

Tom Still: Regenerative farming techniques can help drive future of agriculture
Smarter practices throughout the food chain can help keep dairying, cheese-making and associated industries a part of the Wisconsin landscape for years to come.

Alys Brooks: Harris campaign needs real neighborliness
If we don’t confront our unwillingness to see the humanity of others and push our leaders to do the same, our neighborliness will be more of aspiration than reality.

Chuck Melvin: Former WTMJ radio host calls Trump threat to democracy. Conservative endorses VP.
Why Sykes is voting for a Democrat for president over Trump: ‘I cannot tolerate someone who wants to shred the Constitution’

Bill Kaplan: Right-wing whoppers hurled at Baldwin
The MacIver Institute falsely distorted and minimized Baldwin’s central role in passing legislation to help save retirement benefits of middle-working class participants in imminently collapsing corporate-union pension plans, including the Central States Pension Fund.

Michelle Bryant: Brothers: Tell me what you want
The importance of engaging Black male voters, in the upcoming election, cannot be overstated.

Dave Zweifel: Take Trump at his word
While even many of his supporters are troubled by some of the candidate’s behavior and over-the-top statements, they view it as simple hyperbole, that he won’t actually do the things he claims he will.

David Blaska: No knockouts in Fox v Kamala Harris
It was more debate than interview, with the newsman a surrogate for Trump.

Gregory Humphrey: Why does Donald Trump’s incoherence, mental decline fail to get top-of-the-fold attention?
Voters have come to expect weirdness from Trump, so it is not the news story it once was. Others say Trump acts so delusional so often that if reporters tracked and wrote about him acting in this way on each occasion there would be no other space or time for the rest of the events in the political world.

LaTonya Johnson: Strengthening senior health care matters now more than ever
Wisconsin’s senior population is rapidly growing, expected to increase by 75% between now and 2040. It’s a community that deserves protecting, and one that faces unique challenges related to the cost of care – and cost of living more broadly, given their fixed incomes.

Richard Moore: Trapture! Gary North and the corporate capture trap
The bureaucrats are the dictators, not the other way around.

A.J. Nino Amato: Four deficit factors which caused Madison’s fiscal crisis
The mayor and the City Council made no effort to balance the city’s annual budgets over the last five years, despite the annual warnings by the city’s finance department, community leaders and public policy experts,

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ assess the state of the presidential race in Wisconsin
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, take a look at the Trump and Harris campaigns in battleground Wisconsin in the final weeks of the race. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Peter Barca: Send me to Congress again to fight for Wisconsin families
Wisconsin families are being left behind by partisan politicians and they need a leader who will stand up for them and deliver results.

Ruth Conniff: A prescription for overcoming our dangerous political divisions
We need to rebuild civil discourse, whoever wins the election.

Dan Knodl: Background on recent election oversight efforts
Recently, I read an article by Mark Belling, titled, “Wisconsin is not stopping noncitizens from voting, they are all on the honor system.” Belling correctly points out that checking a box to declare whether you are a legal citizen is our state’s safeguard mechanism – not exactly a ringing endorsement for election security.

Scott Walker: How large will a Republican majority in the Senate be?
Republicans will control the Senate after the Nov. 5 election. The question is, will it be with 51 senators, or as many as 58?

Dan O’Donnell: Turns out the numbers do lie
This week, the FBI very quietly revised numbers to show that violent crime actually rose by 4.5% in 2022.

Dave Zweifel: Weather conspiracy theories show how far the fringe has gone
The meteorologists have become targets of the lunatic fringe thanks to Georgia’s belligerent Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who proclaimed that the government is controlling the weather, directing hurricanes at “Red states.”

WisOpinion.com: ‘The Insiders’ review Evers, GOP leaders’ priorities for state’s budget surplus
The WisOpinion insiders, Chvala and Jensen, talk about their experience with state budget surpluses and the battle between Democrats and Republicans over how to allocate the current surplus. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Dec. 1
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss the new lawsuit challenging ACT 10, Madison Dem Sen. Melissa Agard’s bid for Dane County executive, a judge dismissing an open meetings complaint against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos over his impeachment advisory panel, Gov. Tony Evers’ alias email account, the redistricting lawsuit before the state Supreme Court and more.